Following Edge

As some of you know, one of the few reasons I have not been spending much time blogging is that I've been using my extra time to help my wife, Anne Marie, open her private practice office, Anne Marie Moore, Women's Health Care Nurse Practitioner.

She has been working for Planned Parenthood in recent years, but has a vision about health care for women that includes gynecology, and hormones, and menopause, but also allows her to have more time with her patients to genuinely address their health care concerns overall, and to provide the time, respect and health education that almost everyone observes is missing from many family doctor and gynecologist offices these days.

I really believe that Anne Marie is on the cutting edge of a health care revolution, where patients demand better, more respectful care. Anne Marie's private practice office in Eugene, OR opened on Monday. Wish her luck, or (if you're a woman in the Eugene area who could use a better health care experience) get in touch with her about an appointment.

Now, with that post title, I should get some interesting visitors. But, seriously, our newer horse, Foxy, is going to be having a foal later this month. To show we've evolved beyond sleeping in the barn to monitor our pregnant horse, we have borrowed a wireless web camera to watch her. (Thanks, David!)

So, here is Foxy Cam!

Today, I went to the Gingerbread Village Restaurant with my parents. I was eating and I sprayed ketchup all over one of my dolls when I meant to put it on my place. Before my mom washed her, she looked like she was bleeding all over really badly.

Before going to the restaurant, we went for a hike at a park. One park ranger told us to stop at post number 9 because there were angry bees on the trail. It was really fun.

Here I am with my dog, Sasha. The dog is a girl. We are with my shopping cart, where I carry a little pony I named Sunshine and some other things.

My dog was stinky. My mom said "You should take Sasha
out for a dog wash". We took Sasha out for a dog wash, just like she said and also for a walk. Sasha feels happy because she had a great day today.

Sasha thought she would get a treat at the gas station. I asked if my dad could get Sasha one, but he said no, because my dog had lots of dog treats and a drink of water before then.

Me and my friends practice ballet every Thursday. In the first picture, they are acting really, really silly, and so am I. We are not supposed to.

In the last picture, I am running ballet runs to my teacher Florabelle. My dad pretends he has a teacher named Glorafelle and tries to tell me what spring pointe is. My dad is very, very silly. He says things that are nonsense when he talks about ballet moves. He thinks that I make fun of his teacher's name, but he is really making fun of my teacher.
In two days, I am going to have a ballet performance of Sleeping Beauty at the Hult Center. I will play a woodland nymph.

Today was my Spring concert at my school, Far Horizons Montessori School. This is a picture of us on stage. Some people, like me, are in Elementary, and the other people are in Primary 2, which is Kindergarden. We are dancing "Ballin' the Jack" on stage. I am dancing with Sequoia, one of the Primary 2 students. I used to be Primary 2 last year. At the end of our performance, people clapped and then some children sang "Ballin' the Jack".

The Elementary class sang two songs, then had a play about being not nice to people. Two kids had a blue mask and other students said "Their skin is blue" and "They have really stupid clothes", which is a bad cursing word. So, kids don't say that at home.

This weekend, Anne Marie, Lauren and I went to the coast, found a campground, camped in our tents, and enjoyed a campfire... but not in that order.

We did enjoy our campground and campfire, pictured to the right, where we roasted hot dogs and s'mores over the fire, relaxed and read in our camping chairs, enjoyed drinks, and played a game of Go Fish before sleeping in the rather chilly night air.

However, as you can see from the reverse-angle picture below, our campsite was less than 20 feet from our house. I also added a Lauren close-up below, because it's so cute.
The next morning, we "broke camp" to the comfort of our home, then took a short trip to Florence, where we happened to stop at a state park campground to use their restroom (without paying the $5 day use fee, heh heh).

Aside from the very low temperatures, our camping excursion was a lot of fun, and gave us a chance to burn our scrap wood and downed limbs, so we'll probably make it a "lazy camping" tradition in nice weather.

Today we were playing a game called lawn darts at the RiverPlay park. I had a lot of fun. I think this was the first time I've played it. I think I've seen a lot of people play it before, but maybe, the answer is no.

We played it two rounds. My dad and I tied the first time, and I won the second time. I thought the darts were ball catchers or bases before I knew what they were. My dad taught me how to use them. He used to play the game with his dad, but he used metal darts with pins or knives.

These are my tie shoes. I now know how to tie my tie shoes. I learned from a book called "Tie Your Shoes: Rocket Style/Bunny Ears" and I tie my shoes Bunny Ears style. My dad went to the store and bought really long shoelaces for me so I can tie them fast.

I wore my tie shoes to school on Friday for the whole day. Before, I just tried them on. I'm planning, I think, to get new tie shoes, now that I can wear them to school.

Here I am with a worm collection that I made and a worm house I made with yellow and white paper.

I got the worms in our back yard where our horses poop. I live on a farm and put rocks, dirt and grass from our farm in for the worms.

I was trying to make a worm castle, but it turned into a house. I tried to find a worm from the collection to try the worm house, but there were no worms in sight. My dad thinks they are resting comfortably in their dirt.

1. Comment by Dave'ola - 5/15/2007 8:41 pm

   Did she actually say the phrase, "resting comfortably"? An advanced intellect, no doubt!

2. Comment by tvindy - 5/15/2007 10:29 pm

   I remember we did something like that in kindergarten in a large mayonnaise jar. The teacher wrapped black construction paper around the outside. A few days later, she removed the paper, and the worms had created a network of tunnels against the inside off the glass, and you could see them in there. Apparently, if you don't darken the outside, the worms will flee the light, and you will never see them.

3. Comment by Sally - 5/16/2007 2:03 pm

   Dear Lauren: I really enjoyed your "Following Edge" stories. Please tell us more interesting tales soon.
   Oma Sally

4. Comment by Lauren - 5/20/2007 5:40 pm

   Dave'ola, you're so silly. My dad thought they were resting comfortably, not me. Worms don't rest comfortably, they work making poop that our horses poo into dirt and they help the earth. This is Lauren.

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